How to Replace the Hinges on a Hotpoint Electric Oven Door

The design of the Hotpoint electric oven doors hinges allows the door to open in two positions; broil and fully open. The built-in broil stop on the hinge keeps the door open about six inches without needing a brace to hold it open. The hinge should allow the door to open to 90 degrees and remain open while you insert and remove items from the oven. Replace the hinges on the oven if the door does not shut or fails to remain open in the two positions.

1

Open the door on your Hotpoint electric oven about six inches. Grab both sides of the door, and slide it up the hinges to pull the door off the oven. Place the hinges in the closed position against the front of the oven.

2

Pull open the bottom storage drawer until it stops. Lift the front of the storage drawer to release it from the support tracks, and pull it from the appliance to access the hinge springs beneath the oven.

3

Look inside the drawer opening for the bottom of the hinge and the hinge spring. Note the three holes on the bottom of the hinge and in which of the three holes the spring hooks through. Use needle-nose pliers to unhook the spring from the hinge.

4

Remove the three Phillips screws along the inside of the hinge bracket next to the oven opening. Grab the hinge, and pull it from the oven.

5

Insert the bottom of the hinge through the hole in the oven. Position the hinge bracket against the oven opening, and secure it with the three Phillips screws you removed from the original hinge.

6

Reach inside the drawer opening, and grasp the hinge spring with your needle-nose pliers. Stretch the spring and hook it through the hole it occupied in the original hinge.

7

Line up the rear glides on the storage drawer with the support tracks inside the drawer opening. Tilt up the front of the drawer to lift it over the drawer stops, and slide the drawer closed.

8

Grab the hinges, and pull them open about two or three inches. The design of the hinges should allow them to remain in this position.

9

Lift the oven door, and slide it down over the hinges. Close the Hotpoint oven door.

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Cecilia Harsch has been writing professionally since 2009. She writes mainly home improvement, health and travel articles for various online publications. She has several years of experience in the home-improvement industry, focusing on gardening, and a background in group exercise instruction. Harsch received her Certified Nurses Assistant license in 2004. She attended Tarrant County College and studied English composition.